Notes and Comments.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2732, 1 June 1915, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

Other Women's Woes

When the Minister for Defence stated tho other day day that lio would call out married men for tho reinforcements, there was a general protest. But there was actually ono Voice from the Valley of Silence in •support of the proposal. A woinati wrote to one of the city papers urging the strange argument that, .whilst widows might have children to console them when they lost them men, spinsters would have no outlook and no consolation if only single men were sent to the front. Unfortunately for this argument there are no fewer "than 50,000 more bachelors than spinsters in New Zealand.

To-day's History. Battle of Drumclog, 1G79. Shannon .and Chesapeake naval action, 1813. Melbourne founded. 1837. .Sir David Wilkic (bed, 1841. Prince Louis Napoleon, whilst fighting with the British forces, killed by Zulus, J879. Victor Hugo died, 1885. French flag hoisted on New He-' brides, 1886. Formosa annexed by Japan, 1895. On June 1, Lord Howe gained his great victory.over the French fleet off Ushant. He captured six French ships and sank the Yengour. The Prince Ijoperial, the only son of Napoleon 111. and the Empress Eugenic (the latter is still living in England) was killed in the Zulu war on June 1, 1879. .With him died all practical chance of another attempt, to place tho Bonaparte dynasty on the throne of France. This is the 251 st anniversary of the death of the man who introduced to the world champagne as it is now drunk, Uio Benedictine monk Perignon, who died in the abbey of Hauvilliers, Epernay, now in ruiiis. Boom-and-Burst Bulow. Pity the sorrows of a celf-niade prince! Prince yon Bulow was the predecessor of Dr. yon BethmannSollweg in the Premiership of Prussia, and as he married an Italian, it fwas thought he had tied Italy to Germany with bonds as binding as if he wero really a. Hohenzollern. But ho fell away from grace—meaning that the Kaiser tired of his favourite. After being for some years in retiremen b, yon Bulow was pulled out by the Kaiser and sent to Italy with his Italian wife to prevent fh'e Italians from joining tho Allies. .And all along the Prince, who thought he had Italy | trailing on. tho ourl of a hit of siring, ' was beautifully fooled. "Delay is on our side," he reported to the Master Hun. "Keep up the. debate on the treaty with Austria -promise- them , the whole earth. It won't matter, lor | time is on our side." And in t;ho ful- { ness of time Italy lurried to tho proud Prince and said to liijii: "Now, BuJey, dear man run away home. Our army is now quite ready for tlm field, thanks to Ihe way you played our | hand." And yon Bulow is so badly I broken that he has gone to his brother in Switzerland—not to tho Kaiser ! What a fall—for if the Princo \ had succeeded with the Italians he was to have become Chancellor of Prussia once more. ;